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020    $a 9781451607635
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082 04 $a 920 CATON
100 1  $a Wake, Jehanne.
245 10 $a Sisters of fortune : $b America's Caton sisters at home and abroad / $c Jehanne Wake.
250    $a 1st Touchstone trade pbk. ed.
260    $a New York, NY : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2012.
300    $a xxiv, 393 pages, [16] pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ; $c 24 cm
500    $a "A Touchstone book."
500    $a Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.
500    $a Includes reading group guide and interview with the author ([9] p. following p. 393).
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-377) and index.
505 0  $a The sisters' North America -- Maryland -- The Carroll Family Tree -- North America, 1770-1816. A Revolutionary heritage ; Miss Carroll's choice ; Plantation girls ; French influences ; Republican girls ; The Patterson connection ; Debutantes ; In Washington City ; The War of 1812 ; Emily's Canadian adventure ; Family troubles ; Mad about Europe -- Familiar strangers, 1816-24. In London society ; Anglo-American differences ; "We are all for Americans very well" ; Dancing in Paris ; Louisa in love ; Marianne and the Duke ; Emily's return ; Unfulfilled hopes ; "Plunged in sorrow" ; Afflicting circumstances -- Anglo-American wives, 1824-34. Marianne's return ; His delinquency ; The Lady Lieutenant ; Uncertain futures ; Perplexing positions : Marianne ; Perplexing positions : Louisa ; Petticoat politics ; The Reform Bill ; The last signer ; A longed-for reunion -- Heiresses, 1834-74. Lady speculators ; Plantagenet ; Well housed ; "To be together" ; "The desolate state of age."
520    $a The first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
600 10 $a Caton, Bess.
600 10 $a Caton, Emily.
600 10 $a Caton, Louisa.
600 10 $a Caton, Marianne.
650  0 $a Heiresses $z United States $v Biography.
650  0 $a Americans $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century.
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